Puppet users - Jun 2007 - Re: [puppet] #446: Require should stack not override

On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 10:24:42AM -0000, puppet wrote:
> #446: Require should stack not override
[...]
> Comment:
> 
>  Here is a patch against 0.23.0 which I think fixes this. It essentially
>  makes all relationship metaparameters stack up, rather than get overriden.
> 
>  --- puppet-0.23.0.orig/lib/puppet/parser/resource.rb    2007-06-17
[...]
> 
>  I strongly feel that without this feature, definitions don''t work
as
>  people expect them to.
>  In the original report, alpha { "Wobble": ... } looks like a
regular type,
>  and people don''t expect the require parameter
>  to be dropped silently in _some_ cases, which is what happens now.
I wonder if you could have a new, fresh, more favourable look at #446
now that I submitted a patch?

It does make relational metaparams work differently, but I really do
think this way is more intuitive...

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Marcin Owsiany
Web Systems Integrator - Guardian Unlimited

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On Jun 28, 2007, at 5:30 AM, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> I wonder if you could have a new, fresh, more favourable look at #446
> now that I submitted a patch?
>
> It does make relational metaparams work differently, but I really do
> think this way is more intuitive...
Hmm.  I think this is functionally equivalent to how I was planning  
on solving the problem.  I guess I''d be willing to accept this as is  
but still planning on changing the behaviour in the future.

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